From: ybnorml1@cox.net   
      
   if you deleted it all how did you get the bookmarks and e-mail addresses   
      migrated?   
      
   G.T. TYSON wrote:   
   > Last night I took a step I had been putting off for some time. I   
   > completely deleted all traces of Netscape from this computer. Now I'm   
   > wondering why it took so long.   
   >   
   > I'm not sure what made it turn into the computer equivalent of a ball   
   > and chain. But in the past few months it had developed an annoying habit   
   > of not starting. I'd click the icon and nothing would happen for thirty   
   > or more seconds. Then it would come up with sections missing, or I would   
   > just get the toolbar across the top of the screen and nothing else. A   
   > quick Ctrl-Alt-Delete would put it right, but sometimes I would have to   
   > do it twice. Other times it would start with the Netscape 7.2 ID box, if   
   > that's the correct term, like nothing was wrong. I never knew which   
   > thing would happen. The capper finally came when I sat down here   
   > Thursday to find all my bookmarks had disappeared. I figured I would   
   > just reload them from the floppy disc backup, but the disc only   
   > contained a few of them. Most were gone. That's when it got spooky. I   
   > don't know if it was a virus or what, but I finally got just plain fed   
   > up.  The proverbial straw had finally broken the camel's back.   
   >   
   > So now Netscape is gone. It's outta here. I'm using Mozilla Firefox for   
   > my main browser now, with Thunderbird as the email client. I was amazed   
   > at how easily Thunderbird installed and transferred all the address   
   > books and spamguard lists from the old email client. There's also a HTML   
   > authoring client called NVU that does more or less exactly the same   
   > thing as the Netscape Composer, so that's what I'll be using for website   
   > updates. And the floppy backup of the bookmarks reflects exactly what is   
   > currently on the browser. I think I'm going to like this Mozilla thing.   
   >   
   > I keep a copy of Internet Explorer around for the occasional website   
   > that is optimized for IE, but that is an increasingly rare thing these   
   > days. I hardly ever use it for anything else because I'm always hearing   
   > of new security holes being discovered in IE. Apparently it's about as   
   > secure as a screen door in a submarine. It's there if I need it, but I   
   > hardly ever click on it.   
   >   
   > Sometimes you just gotta do what you just gotta do.   
      
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